RT Book
T1 The color of the third degree: racism, police torture, and civil rights in the American South, 1930-1955
A1 Niedermeier, Silvan 1981-
A2 Cohen, Paul
LA English
PP Chapel Hill
PB The University of North Carolina Press
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1669284832
AB Police torture and "legal lynchings" in the American South -- Torture and African American courtroom testimony -- The NAACP campaign against "forced confessions" -- Selective public outrage: the Quintar South case -- The investigations by the federal government.
AB "Available for the first time in English, 'The Color of the Third Degree' uncovers the still-hidden history of police torture in the Jim Crow South. Based on a wide array of previously neglected archival sources, Silvan Niedermeier argues that as public lynching decreased, less visible practices of racial subjugation and repression became central to southern white supremacy. In an effort to deter unruly white mobs, as well as oppress black communities, white southern law officers violently extorted confessions and testimony from black suspects and defendants in jail cells and police stations to secure speedy convictions. In response, black citizens and the NAACP fought to expose these brutal practices through individual action, local organizing, and litigation. In spite of these efforts, police torture remained a widespread, powerful form of racial control and suppression well into the late twentieth century"--
NO Translation of: Rassismus und Bürgerrechte : Polizeifolter im Süden der USA, 1930-1955. Hamburg : Hamburger Edition, 2014
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN E185.61
SN 9781469652962
SN 9781469652979
K1 African Americans : Civil rights : Southern States : History : 20th century
K1 POLICE brutality : Southern States : History : 20th century
K1 Torture : Southern States : History : 20th century
K1 African American prisoners : Violence against : Southern States : History : 20th century
K1 Racism : Southern States : History : 20th century
K1 Southern States : Race relations : History : 20th century
K1 USA : Südstaaten : Polizeibeamter : Justizvollzugsbeamter : Rassismus : Folter : Strafgefangener : Beschuldigter : Schwarze : Ermittlung : Geschichte 1930-1955
K1 USA : Südstaaten : Polizeibeamter : Justizvollzugsbeamter : Rassismus : Folter : Schwarze : Strafgefangener : Beschuldigter : Bürgerrechtsbewegung : Geschichte 1930-1955